Chuck Palahniuk
Chuck Palahniuk
Charles Michael "Chuck" Palahniukis an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He is the author of the award-winning novel Fight Club, which also was made into an acclaimed film of the same name...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 February 1962
CityPasco, WA
CountryUnited States of America
girl gay voice
The first time we meet another person an insidious little voice in our heads says, "I might wear eyeglasses or be chunky around the hips or a girl, but at least I'm not Gay or Black or a Jew." Meaning: I may be me- but at least I have the good sense not to be YOU.
frustration levels want
Screenwriters get paid a hell of a lot more money but their level of frustration seems to be so high that I don't want that.
hero want needs
I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.
worry ends
In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.
girl summer nice
I know that when a supersexy older girl with hips and breasts and nice hair wants to take off your glasses and to paint you a smoky eye she's merely trying to enroll you in a beauty contest she's already won. It's a kind of slummy, condescending gesture, like when rich people ask poor people where they summer. To me, this smacks of a blatant, insensitive "let them eat cake" type of chauvinism.
children child-of-god lunatic
I am the child of a lunatic. Not a child of God.
beautiful giving soul
I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.
fall falling-apart stills
Everything is still falling apart.
insecurity demon prey
Demons are former celebrities who prey on their own insecurities.
death hero names
Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.
feelings starting starting-point
The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.
white individuality black
Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.
writing ideas people
I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I write the way some people do drugs.
father writing fighting
And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss thought I was writing about his boss. People really put themselves, you know, in the shoes of the narrator.